python - Django after @login_required redirect to next

Question

I feel like this is an easy question and I'm just missing 1 small step.

I want to do any number of the following (as the term in the next parameter):

[not signed in] -> profile -> login?next=/accounts/profile/ -> auth -> profile.
[not signed in] -> newsfeed -> login?next=/newsfeed/` -> auth -> newsfeed.

Whereas I am currently going:

[not signed in] -> profile -> login?next=/accounts/profile/ -> auth -> loggedin
[not signed in] -> newsfeed -> login?next=/newsfeed/ -> auth -> loggedin

I am looking to somehow pass the next parameter from a form on login to auth and have auth redirect to this parameter

Currently I am trying in my login.html:

<input type='text' name="next" value="{{ next }}">

however this is not getting the next value. I can see from the debug tool bar:

GET data
Variable    Value
u'next'     [u'/accounts/profile/']

views:

def auth_view(request):
  username = request.POST.get('username', '')
  password = request.POST.get('password', '')
  user = auth.authenticate(username=username, password=password)

  if user is not None:
    auth.login(request, user)
    print request.POST
    return HttpResponseRedirect(request.POST.get('next'),'/accounts/loggedin')
  else:
    return HttpResponseRedirect('/accounts/invalid')

login.html:

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block content %}

  {% if form.errors %}
  <p class="error"> Sorry, you have entered an incorrect username or password</p>
  {% endif %}
  <form action="/accounts/auth/" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
    <label for="username">User name:</label>
    <input type="text" name="username" value="" id="username">

    <label for="password">Password:</label>
    <input type="password" name="password" value="" id="password">

    <input type='text' name="next" value="{{ request.GET.next }}">
    <input type="submit" value="login">
  </form>

{% endblock %}

settings:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Examples:

    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    ('^accounts/', include('userprofile.urls')),

    url(r'^accounts/login/$', 'django_yunite.views.login'),
    url(r'^accounts/auth/$', 'django_yunite.views.auth_view'),
    url(r'^accounts/logout/$', 'django_yunite.views.logout'),
    url(r'^accounts/loggedin/$', 'django_yunite.views.loggedin'),
    url(r'^accounts/invalid/$', 'django_yunite.views.invalid_login'),

)

settings:

# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True

TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []


# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'debug_toolbar',
    'userprofile',
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'django_yunite.urls'

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'django_yunite.wsgi.application'

# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-ca'

TIME_ZONE = 'EST'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True


# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    ('assets', '/home/user/GitHub/venv_yunite/django_yunite/static/'),
    )

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    './templates',
    '/article/templates',
)

STATIC_ROOT = "/home/user/Documents/static/"

AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'userprofile.UserProfile'

the print statment shows an empty u'next'

Answer 1

The query string is implicitly passed to any view, without you having to write any special code.

All you have to do is make sure that the next key is passed from the actual login form (in your case, this is the form that is rendered in /accounts/login/), to the /accounts/auth view.

To do that, you need to make sure you have the request template context processor (django.core.context_processors.request) enabled in your settings. To do this, first you need to import the default value for TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS, then add the request processor to it in your settings.py, like this:

from django.conf import global_settings

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = global_settings.TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS + (
    "django.core.context_processors.request",
) 

Then in the form:

<form method="POST" action="/accounts/auth">
    {% csrf_token %}
    <input type="hidden" name="next" value="{{ request.GET.next }}" />
    {{ login_form }}
    <input type="submit">
</form>

Now, in your /accounts/auth view:

def foo(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        # .. authenticate your user


        # redirect to the value of next if it is entered, otherwise
        # to /accounts/profile/
        return redirect(request.POST.get('next','/accounts/profile/'))